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A sculptor creates his version of the perfect woman. He falls in love with his creation, brings her gifts, clothes her in the most beautiful clothes, covers her with kisses and caresses her...and yet, she is stone.

He goes to the temple of Aphrodite and gives her an offering. She shows her favor by having the flame rise up three times.

He returns home to his beautiful statue and kisses her. Under his lips the stone turns soft, everywhere he touches her becomes soft, pliable, and human.

Aphrodite blessed him with his creation - his love, his life.

"The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common:
instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views,
which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that need altering."

Mine is that of Rhiannon. It's turns into a sad story when she is accused of murdering her son but it redeemed and the truth comes out as the child had been stolen. She is punished but retains her innocense and strength throughout.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'

John Greenleaf Whittier

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.